Quote of the Day
Earlier this week, West Virginia Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (ranking minority member of the Senate Intelligence Committee) released a letter he wrote in 2003 to protest the Bush Administration's warrantless surveillance program. That prompted today's quote of the day, in the form of a statement from Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of the Intelligence Committee:
"In his letter . . . Senator Rockefeller asserts that he had lingering concerns about the program designed to protect the American people from another attack, but was prohibited from doing anything about it. A United States Senator has significant tools with which to wield power and influence over the executive branch. Feigning helplessness is not one of those tools.The most recent occasion when Rockefeller expressed support, according to Roberts? Two weeks ago.
"I have no recollection of Senator Rockefeller objecting to the program at the many briefings he and I attended together. In fact, it is my recollection that on many occasions Senator Rockefeller expressed to the vice president his vocal support for the program."
posted by Ken @ 5:50 PM
1 Comments:
At 12/24/2005 11:30 AM,
Daniel said…
In all fairness to Rockefeller, he hadn't gotten the memo from the NY Times and the special interest groups that this was going to be the current weeks "we can impeach Bush for this" item.
Maybe he was against the program before he was for it but then decided he was against it again.
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